The Giants' once-hopeful season hit a jolting wall of realism this afternoon.
The accusations have also jolted Wall Street, where Dr. Marshall is considered one of the wise men of financial engineering.
The Federal Reserve's decision to buy $1 trillion of government debt and mortgage-backed securities jolted Wall Street on Wednesday.
[C1.] S.E.C. INQUIRY Accusations that a retired professor at St . Johns University was involved in passing inside information have jolted Wall Street.
(See: "How Crude! Oil Jolts Wall Street").
Yet on Sept. 7, the Labor Department produced an employment report for August that was far weaker than expected, jolting Wall Street: Payroll employment declined by 4,000 jobs the first employment decline in four years compared to widespread forecasts that it would increase by 100,000.
Early in the show, a piece of scenery representing a train car was to slide in ever so smoothly from stage left, but it jammed in its tracks, and the jolt sent two wall sconces popping out of their sockets.
Such slow growth was a jolt for investors, and Wall Street's judgment was swift, with Groupon shares down 27 percent on Tuesday, the day after the earnings were announced.
The new terms, he hopes, will show him to be a more pragmatic deal maker, willing to seek compromise to save a deal that for the time being at least, brought a jolt of confidence to Wall Street.
But if anything completely out of the ordinary happens to the stock market-if some random event sends a jolt through all of Wall Street and pushes G.M. to, say, twenty dollars-Nassim Taleb will not end up in a dowdy apartment in Athens.
